Re: Can Ada print coloured/styled text to the terminal? (ANSI escape sequences?)

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 2018-08-07 00:15, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> <briot.emmanuel@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> You can also take a look at GNATCOLL.terminal, in the GNAT
>> Components Collection. It will do colors either using ansi escape
>> sequences or, on Windows, proper system calls. In terms of
>> portability, better to think early on that not all terminals support
>> escape sequences...
> 
> And they don't all support the same escape sequences, either. But most
> important is that Windows almost never supports escape sequences, so any
> code that you want to be reasonably portable has to avoid them.

I didn't test it, because the idea to use character terminal in XXI 
century is beyond silly, but I heard that Windows 10 cmd has them 
enabled. It took less than 3 decades to do, but they finally managed it! 
On older versions ANSI.SYS driver is required.

> (If you want
> it really portable, that is to work with other Ada compileers, you have to
> avoid GNATCOLL, too, since it is GNAT-specific.)

There are lots of GUI frameworks with Ada support for Windows as well as 
raw Windows GDI bindings. No reason to mess with terminal commands.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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